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65-588: Hedgebrook's global community of alumnae, more than 2,000 writers from all over the world, include celebrated author Gloria Steinem , poets Naomi Shihab Nye , Suheir Hammad , playwrights Dael Orlandersmith , Ellen McLaughlin , and Eve Ensler , novelists Nassim Assefi , Bernardine Evaristo , Sarah Ladipo Manyika , Mary Gordon , Ruth Ozeki , Elizabeth George , and Sarah Waters , memoirists Honor Moore and Carolyn Forché , non-fiction writers Pramila Jayapal and Holly Morris , and solo performer Sarah Jones . Hedgebrook's Radical Craft Classes offer women writers

130-506: A book." Ruth spent long periods in and out of sanatoriums for the mentally ill. Steinem was ten years old when her parents separated in 1944. Her father went to California to find work, while she and her mother continued to live together in Toledo. While her parents divorced under the stress of her mother's illness, Steinem did not attribute it at all to male chauvinism on the father's part—she claims to have "understood and never blamed him for

195-464: A delegate for Shirley Chisholm in New York, but lost. In March 1973, she addressed the first national conference of Stewardesses for Women's Rights, which she continued to support throughout its existence. Stewardesses for Women's Rights folded in the spring of 1976. Despite her influence in the feminist movement, Steinem also earned criticism from some feminists as well, who questioned whether she

260-728: A feminist leader. In 1971, she co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus which provides training and support for women who seek elected and appointed offices in government. Also in 1971, she co-founded the Women's Action Alliance which, until 1997, provided support to a network of feminist activists and worked to advance feminist causes and legislation. In the 1990s, Steinem helped establish Take Our Daughters to Work Day , an occasion for young girls to learn about future career opportunities. In 2005, Steinem, Jane Fonda , and Robin Morgan co-founded

325-503: A heavily mined zone that divides South Korea from nuclear North Korea. In addition to Steinem, participants in crossing the DMZ included organizer Christine Ahn from Hawaii; feminist Suzuyo Takazato from Okinawa; Amnesty International human rights lawyer Erika Guevara of Mexico; Liberian peace and reconciliation advocate Leymah Gbowee ; Philippines lawmaker Liza Maza ; Northern Ireland peace activist Mairead Maguire and Colonel Ann Wright,

390-569: A journey from the capital of North Korea, Pyongyang to South Korea, crossing the most heavily militarized zone in the world between the two Koreas. Steinem was born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio , the daughter of Ruth (née Nuneviller) and Leo Steinem. Her mother was Presbyterian , mostly of German (including Prussian ) and some Scottish descent. Her father was Jewish , the son of immigrants from Württemberg , Germany, and Radziejów , Poland. Her paternal grandmother, Pauline Perlmutter Steinem ,

455-426: A late-night radio show, Steinem garnered attention for declaring " George McGovern is the real Eugene McCarthy". In 1968, Steinem was chosen to pitch the arguments to McGovern as to why he should enter the presidential race that year; he agreed, and Steinem "consecutively or simultaneously served as pamphlet writer, advance 'man', fund raiser, lobbyist of delegates, errand runner, and press secretary". McGovern lost

520-471: A photo of Steinem in Bunny uniform and detailed how women were treated at those clubs. Steinem has maintained that she is proud of the work she did publicizing the exploitative working conditions of the bunnies and especially the sexual demands made of them, which skirted the edge of the law. However, for a brief period after the article was published, Steinem was unable to land other assignments; in her words, this

585-451: A phrase it includes the freedom to have children or not to. So it makes it possible for us to make a coalition." In 1972, she co-founded the feminist magazine Ms. alongside founding editors Letty Cottin Pogrebin , Mary Thom , Patricia Carbine , Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, Dorothy Pitman Hughes , and Mary Peacock; it began as a special edition of New York , and Clay Felker funded

650-563: A regular segment entitled "Surrealism in Everyday Life". Steinem eventually landed a job at Felker's newly founded New York magazine in 1968. In 1969, she covered an abortion speak-out for New York Magazine , which was held in a church basement in Greenwich Village, New York . Steinem had had an abortion herself in London at the age of 22. She felt what she called a "big click" at

715-592: A relaxed, convivial atmosphere. This is followed by a two-week retreat at Hedgebrook, where each playwright has her own private cottage, a dramaturg on-call, and the opportunity to work in Hedgebrook’s unique combination of solitude and community. The retreat is capped off with public presentations of excerpts from each play. Participation in the Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival is by invitation in collaboration with partner theatres from around

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780-718: A retired officer who resigned from the U.S. military to protest the US invasion of Iraq. Steinem was the honorary co-chairwoman of 2015 Women's Walk For Peace In Korea with Mairead Maguire , and in the weeks leading up to the walk Steinem told the press, "It's hard to imagine any more physical symbol of the insanity of dividing human beings." The group's main goal is to advocate disarmament and seek Korea's reunification. It will be holding international peace symposiums both in Pyongyang and Seoul in which women from both North Korea and South Korea can share experiences and ideas of mobilizing women to stop

845-415: A roaming antiques dealer. Before Gloria was born, her mother, Ruth, then age 34, had a "nervous breakdown" which left her an invalid, trapped in delusional fantasies that occasionally turned violent. She changed "from an energetic, fun-loving, book-loving" woman into "someone who was afraid to be alone, who could not hang on to reality long enough to hold a job, and who could rarely concentrate enough to read

910-442: A sacrament' was right. Speaking for myself, I knew it was the first time I had taken responsibility for my own life. I wasn't going to let things happen to me. I was going to direct my life, and therefore it felt positive. But still, I didn't tell anyone. Because I knew that out there it wasn't [positive]." She also said, "In later years, if I'm remembered at all it will be for inventing a phrase like 'reproductive freedom'  ... as

975-459: A sacrament." Steinem herself attributed it to "an old Irish woman taxi driver in Boston", whom she said she and Florynce Kennedy met. On May 24, 2015, International Women's Day for Disarmament, thirty women— including two Nobel Peace laureates and retired Colonel Ann Wright — from 15 countries linked arms with 10,000 Korean women, stationing themselves on both sides of the DMZ to urge a formal end to

1040-493: A semi-satirical essay for Cosmopolitan titled "If Men Could Menstruate" in which she imagined a world where men menstruate instead of women. She concludes in the essay that in such a world, menstruation would become a badge of honor with men comparing their relative sufferings, rather than the source of shame that it had been for women. On March 22, 1998, Steinem published an op-ed in The New York Times ("Feminists and

1105-707: A similar anti-woman animus. Years later, Steinem described her mother's experience as pivotal to her understanding of social injustices. These perspectives convinced Steinem that women lacked social and political equality . Steinem attended Waite High School in Toledo and Western High School in Washington, D.C. , graduating from the latter while living with her older sister Susanne Steinem Patch . She then attended Smith College , an institution with which she continues to remain engaged, from which she received her A.B. magna cum laude and graduated Phi Beta Kappa . In 1957, Steinem had an abortion . The procedure

1170-592: A six-issue story arc, which would culminate in a battle over an abortion clinic where Wonder Woman was to defend women trying to use their services, a critical feminist issue at the time. The story outlines and the work already done on the issues was scrapped, something that Steinem was not aware of and made no attempt to rectify. In 1976, the first women-only Passover seder was held in Esther M. Broner's New York City apartment and led by Broner, with 13 women attending, including Steinem. In 1977, Steinem became an associate of

1235-529: A twenty-two-year-old American on her way to India. Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'" In the late 1950s, Steinem spent two years in India as a Chester Bowles Asian Fellow. After returning to the United States, she served as director of

1300-587: A utopia of gender equality, "What It Would Be Like If Women Win", in Time magazine. On July 10, 1971, Steinem was one of more than three hundred women who founded the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC), including such notables as Bella Abzug , Betty Friedan , Shirley Chisholm , and Myrlie Evers-Williams . As a co-convener of the Caucus, she delivered the speech " Address to the Women of America ", stating in part: This

1365-665: Is a fund for women that strengthens frontline women's rights activists around the world by increasing their access to financial resources, political leaders, and media visibility. Today they support 15 partner organizations in 13 countries and manage two thematic funds – the Gloria Steinem Equality Fund to End Sex Trafficking with 13 grantees and the Efua Dorkenoo Fund to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) with 5 grantees. Steinem's involvement in presidential campaigns stretches back to her support of Adlai Stevenson in

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1430-499: Is a national day that gives children in the United States a glimpse into the working world. Developed by the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, the day revolves around parents taking their children to work to expose students to future job possibilities and the value of education. It is the successor to Take Our Daughters to Work Day , which

1495-419: Is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism. In 1972, she ran as

1560-448: Is somewhat accidental. A woman member of Congress, for example, might be identified as a member of Congress; it doesn't mean she's any less of a feminist but she's identified by her nearest male analog. Well, I don't have a male analog so the press has to identify me with the movement. I suppose I could be referred to as a journalist, but because Ms. is part of a movement and not just a typical magazine, I'm more likely to be identified with

1625-581: The 1952 presidential campaign . A proponent of civil rights and fierce critic of the Vietnam War , Steinem was initially drawn to Senator Eugene McCarthy because of his "admirable record" on those issues, but after meeting him and hearing him speak, she found him "cautious, uninspired, and dry". As the campaign progressed, Steinem became baffled at "personally vicious" attacks that McCarthy leveled against his primary opponent Robert F. Kennedy , even as "his real opponent, Hubert Humphrey , went free". On

1690-665: The South African apartheid system. At the outset of the Gulf War in 1991, Steinem, along with prominent feminists Robin Morgan and Kate Millett , publicly opposed an incursion into the Middle East and asserted that ostensible goal of "defending democracy" was a pretense. During the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment scandal in 1991, Steinem voiced strong support for Anita Hill and suggested that one day Hill herself would sit on

1755-548: The Supreme Court . In 1992, Steinem co-founded Choice USA , a non-profit organization that mobilizes and provides ongoing support to a younger generation that lobbies for reproductive choice. In 1993, Steinem co-produced and narrated an Emmy Award-winning TV documentary for HBO about child abuse, called, "Multiple Personalities: The Search for Deadly Memories". Also in 1993, she and Rosilyn Heller co-produced an original TV movie for Lifetime, "Better Off Dead", which examined

1820-519: The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. In 1984, Steinem was arrested along with a number of members of Congress and civil rights activists for disorderly conduct outside the South African embassy while protesting against

1885-448: The Women's Media Center , an organization that "works to make women visible and powerful in the media." As of May 2018 , Steinem was traveling internationally as an organizer and lecturer, and was a media spokeswoman on issues of equality. In 2015, Steinem, alongside two Nobel Peace Laureates ( Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia ), Abigail Disney , and other prominent women peace activists, undertook

1950-614: The " Writers and Editors War Tax Protest " pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War . In 1969, she published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation" which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader. As such she campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment , testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in its favor in 1970. That same year she published her essay on

2015-577: The 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women , and as part of that campaign Steinem (and others) spoke at the Apollo Theater in New York City. Chime For Change was funded by Gucci, focusing on using innovative approaches to raise funds and awareness especially regarding girls and women. Steinem has stated, "I think the fact that I've become a symbol for the women's movement

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2080-661: The Clinton Question") in which she claimed that Bill Clinton 's alleged behavior did not constitute sexual harassment, although she did not actually challenge the accounts by his accusers . The op-ed was criticized by various writers, as in the Harvard Crimson and in the Times itself. In 2017, Steinem, in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian , stood by her 1998 New York Times op-ed, but also said: "I wouldn't write

2145-762: The Independent Research Service, an organization funded in secret by a donor that turned out to be the CIA . She worked to send non-Communist American students to the 1959 World Youth Festival . In 1960, she was hired by Warren Publishing as the first employee of Help! magazine. In 1950s, she was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi , and later she went ahead to model her campaign after Gandhi's independence movement. Esquire magazine features editor Clay Felker gave freelance writer Steinem what she later called her first "serious assignment", regarding contraception ; he didn't like her first draft and had her re-write

2210-775: The Indian feminist movement with her colleague and friend, Ruchira Gupta . In 2014, Steinem and Gupta traveled through India to meet the country's young feminists, writers, and thought leaders. A diary was kept documenting their travels, "Notes on A Tour of the Indian Women's Movement". Since 2011, Steinem has been one co-conveners of the Frontline Women's Fund, a project of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute along with former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and Jessica Neuwirth . The Frontline Women's Fund

2275-476: The Korean War (1950-1953), the reunification of families divided during the war, and a peace building process with women in leadership positions to resolve seventy years of hostility following WWII. It was unusual for South Korea and North Korea to reach consensus on allowing peace activists to enter the tense border area, one of the world's most dangerous places, where hundreds of thousands of troops are stationed in

2340-503: The Korean crisis. It is especially believed that the role of women in this act would help and support the reunification of family members divided by the split prolonged for 70 years. She is also the chair of the advisory board of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, an organization fighting sex trafficking and inter-generational prostitution in India, founded by Ruchira Gupta . She has also written extensively on her travels, experiences with women and

2405-473: The Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work program was turned over to Carolyn McKecuen , a MacArthur Award recipient, who took effective control as its executive director before relocating to Elizabeth City, North Carolina , where it has remained since. Gloria Steinem continues to maintain a role with the Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Foundation as a member of its board of directors. Employees across

2470-581: The United States and around the world typically invite their own children or relatives to join them at work, but the program particularly encourages employees to invite children from residential programs or shelters who may not be exposed to many adults in skilled professions today. Company employee resource groups (ERGs) , such as a Women in the workforce ERG or Working parents ERG, tend to sponsor "Take Our Children to Work Day" programming. In 2019, working mother advocate and Entrepreneur writer Christine Michel Carter listed three implementation benefits for

2535-420: The Women's foundation treasurer, Daren Ball, and with support from foundation founder Gloria Steinem . The first celebration took place on March 26, 1993, and has since been celebrated usually on the fourth Thursday of April in order for the 37 million children, parents, schools in over 3.5 million workplaces across the country, in addition to participants in over 200 countries around the world, to plan ahead for

2600-450: The annual event. The day has generally been scheduled on a day that is a school day for most children in the United States, and schools are provided with literature and encouraged to promote the program. Educators are provided with materials for incorporating career exploration into school curricula on the day before or after the event. The program was officially expanded in 2003 to include boys ; however, most companies that participated in

2665-479: The article. Her resulting 1962 article about the way in which women are forced to choose between a career and marriage preceded Betty Friedan 's book The Feminine Mystique by one year. In 1963, while working on an article for Huntington Hartford 's Show magazine, Steinem was employed as a Playboy Bunny at the New York Playboy Club . The article, published in 1963 as " A Bunny's Tale ", featured

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2730-445: The breakup." Nevertheless, the impact of these events had a formative effect on her personality: while her father, a traveling salesman, had never provided much financial stability to the family, his exit aggravated their situation. Steinem concluded that her mother's inability to hold on to a job was evidence of general hostility towards working women. She also concluded that the general apathy of doctors towards her mother emerged from

2795-569: The country. Alumnae include: Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem ( / ˈ s t aɪ n əm / STY -nəm ; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine and a co-founder of Ms. magazine. In 1969, Steinem published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation," which brought her national attention and positioned her as

2860-705: The country. In recognition of the fact that fewer than 20% of the plays produced each year on US stages are by women, Hedgebrook is partnering with theatres who show their commitment to women playwrights through commissions, development and production opportunities. In this way, Hedgebrook forges opportunities for women playwrights to deepen their relationships with theatres and is becoming a major pipeline for plays by women to move from creation to development and production. Current partners include: Denver Theatre Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival , Seattle's ACT Theatre , Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Center Theatre Group , Los Angeles. HWPF plays have gone on to productions around

2925-649: The day. Judy Hargadon, an NHS CEO, who had been in the States as a Harkness Fellow in 1993 and had taken her 10-year old daughter to the TODTW event that year, was appointed Chair of TODTW UK. Raina Sheridan of OPM was the charity's Project Director and later became Chair. A number of businesses across the UK gave supported the charity including Helene Curtis, BT, Body Shop and the Gatsby Trust, as well as OPM. Many other organizations across

2990-457: The employer: worker satisfaction, increased productivity, and employee retention. Take Our Daughters to Work Day UK (TODTW UK), was established as a charity in 1994, one year after the first event in the US. Having worked in New York with Nell Merlino, the creator of the concept, Greg Parston, Chief Executive of the Office for Public Management (OPM) in London, offered OPM as the initial organizer of

3055-529: The first issue. Its 300,000 test copies sold out nationwide in eight days. Within weeks, Ms. had received 26,000 subscription orders and more than 20,000 reader letters. In 1974, Ms. collaborated with public television to produce the television program Woman Alive! , and Steinem was featured in the first episode in her role as co-founder of Ms. magazine. The magazine was sold to the Feminist Majority Foundation in 2001; Steinem remains on

3120-454: The inclusion of boys, the Ms. Foundation contended that the program was designed to specifically address self-esteem issues unique to girls and initially resisted pressure to include boys. Much of this pressure came from educators who did not wish to include the event in their curriculum because their male students were not encouraged to participate. In 2007, upon becoming its own separate foundation,

3185-504: The masthead as one of six founding editors and serves on the advisory board. Also in 1972, Steinem became the first woman to speak at the National Press Club . In November 1977, Steinem spoke at the 1977 National Women's Conference among other speakers including Rosalynn Carter , Betty Ford , Lady Bird Johnson , Bella Abzug , Barbara Jordan , Cecilia Burciaga , Lenore Hershey , and Jean O'Leary . In 1978, Steinem wrote

3250-414: The most famous female superhero had been depowered, had placed Wonder Woman (in costume) on the cover of the first issue of Ms. (1972)— Warner Communications , DC Comics' owner, was an investor—which also contained an appreciative essay about the character. In doing so, however, Steinem forced the firing of Samuel R. Delany who had taken over scripting duties with issue #202. Delany was supposed to write

3315-513: The movement. There's no other slot to put me in." Contrary to popular belief, Steinem did not coin the feminist slogan "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle". Although she helped popularize it, the phrase is actually attributable to Irina Dunn . When Time magazine published an article attributing the saying to Steinem, Steinem wrote a letter saying the phrase had been coined by Dunn. Another phrase sometimes wrongly attributed to Steinem is: "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be

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3380-400: The nomination at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and Steinem later wrote of her astonishment at Hubert Humphrey 's "refusal even to suggest to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley that he control the rampaging police and the bloodshed in the streets". Take Our Daughters to Work Day Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day , sometimes termed Take Your Child to Work Day ,

3445-523: The parallel forces that both oppose abortion and support the death penalty. She contributed the piece "The Media and the Movement: A User's Guide" to the 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium , edited by Robin Morgan . On June 1, 2013, Steinem performed on stage at the "Chime For Change: The Sound Of Change Live" Concert at Twickenham Stadium in London, England. Later in 2014, UN Women began its commemoration of

3510-597: The program had, since the beginning, allowed both boys and girls to participate, usually renaming it "Take Our Children to Work Day" or an equivalent. The program's official website states that the program was changed in order to provide both boys and girls with opportunities to explore careers at an age when they are more flexible in terms of gender roles . The Ms. Foundation also states that men who have hosted children have benefited from being seen as parental figures in addition to their roles as professionals, which can contribute to combating gender stereotypes as well. Prior to

3575-572: The public, private and charitable sectors provided hosting opportunities, including the BBC, the NHS, John Laing, ScotRail, NatWest, ICI and the London Fire Brigade.   In 1997, the charity was renamed Our Daughters and Sons Charitable Trust, with the objective 'to carry on the business of promoting public education and to provide and develop education opportunities within the workplace'. The change enabled

3640-514: The same thing now." In 1967, although with a progressive past, Steinem was outed as a CIA operative marketing Cold war propaganda, with a task to minimize negative perception of the USA in the global arena and promote the promise of Black assimilation "absent from beating, lynching, rapes, fire hoses, police dogs, batons and Klansmen" which were everyday life for Black Americans, putting in question her contribution to anti-racism. In 1968, Steinem signed

3705-710: The scheme in the UK. The Day's objectives were to promote the equality of women with men by the advancement of public education in the role of women at work, to expand opportunities for women at work and to advocate the value of women in the workplace, as well as to advance the education of both girls and boys about the opportunities for employment available to them. The focus of the Day was to build confidence and to encourage girls to think more about their work options and not to limit their choices in their early years at secondary school. TODTWD UK also produced packs with special educational activities for boys, when girls were out of school for

3770-400: The speak-out, and later said she didn't "begin my life as an active feminist" until that day. As she recalled, "It [abortion] is supposed to make us a bad person. But I must say, I never felt that. I used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would be, trying to make myself feel guilty. But I never could! I think the person who said: 'Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be

3835-478: The unique opportunity to study with renowned women writers such as Jane Hamilton , Theresa Rebeck , Karen Joy Fowler , Victoria Redel , Claire Dederer and Robin Swicord . The week-long writing workshops, offered in a variety of genres (fiction, memoir, playwriting, screenwriting, poetry), focus on different aspects of the writer's craft and process. The annual Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival (HWPF) celebrates

3900-459: The work of women writing for the theatre. Since the festival’s inauguration in 1998, HWPF has supported the work of an impressive array of women playwrights and served an important role in the development of new plays by women. The festival begins with a "pre-retreat" weekend, in which the playwrights have the opportunity to get to know one another, hear each other’s plays read aloud, and share responses with an intimate group of theatre professionals in

3965-468: Was "because I had now become a Bunny—and it didn't matter why." However, on the upside, the article compelled the owner of Playboy, Hugh Hefner , to review and improve the working conditions of the Bunnies. In the interim, she conducted an interview with John Lennon for Cosmopolitan magazine in 1964. In 1965, she wrote for NBC-TV's weekly satirical revue, That Was The Week That Was (TW3) , contributing

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4030-625: Was chairwoman of the educational committee of the National Woman Suffrage Association , a delegate to the 1908 International Council of Women , and the first woman to be elected to the Toledo Board of Education, as well as a leader in the movement for vocational education. Pauline also rescued many members of her family from the Holocaust . The Steinems lived and traveled about in a trailer, from which Leo carried out his trade as

4095-602: Was committed to the movement or using it to promote her glamorous image. The Redstockings also singled her out for agreeing to cooperate with the CIA-backed Independent Research Service. It was also acknowledged that Steinem worked as a CIA agent when this operation was taking place. Steinem, who grew up reading Wonder Woman comics, was also a key player in the restoration of Wonder Woman's powers and traditional costume, which were restored in issue #204 (January–February 1973). Steinem, offended that

4160-592: Was expanded to include boys in 2003. In the U.S., it occurs on the fourth Thursday in April every year. The most recent Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day occurred on Thursday, April 25, 2024. In 2018, more than 37 million Americans at over 3.5 million workplaces participated. Take Our Daughters to Work Day was created in New York City in the summer of 1992 by the Ms. Foundation for Women and its president, Marie C. Wilson ,

4225-496: Was performed by Dr. John Sharpe, a British physician, when abortion was still illegal. Years later, Steinem dedicated her memoir My Life on the Road (2015) to him. She wrote, "Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion

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